Meikael Beaudoin Rousseau's Running, Climbing, & Fishing Gear & Expert Recommendations
Professional Trail & Mountain Runner
Boulder, COadventure safe, simple, light, and fast
Meika is a professional trail and mountain runner with a passion for all things outdoors. Growing up in the California Bay Area, he immersed himself in a wide range of outdoor sports from a very young age. He went on to run Cross Country and Track for Stanford University while earning a BS in Human Biology—and spending his summers living out of his car in the Eastern Sierra to pursue running and climbing adventures. While best known for his achievements in the competitive running world, Meika is also an experienced fisherman, ocean kayaker, climber, Nordic skier, wilderness survivalist, gardener, and artist. He loves learning and pushing outside his comfort zone and is always seeking new adventures. When thinking about gear, his focus is safe, simple, light, and fast.
Discipline: Running, Climbing, & Fishing
Specialty: Trail and Mountain Running
2x Trail/Mountain Running National Champion (Half Marathon 2023, VK 2025) Podium finishes in the Golden Trail World Series, WMRA World Cup, and a UTMB Major Completed numerous iconic mountaineering routes in the Eastern Sierras, setting over a dozen FKTs along the way. Favorite routes include the West Ridge of Mount Conness, North Ridge of Lone Pine Peak, East Face of Mount Whitney, and the Palisade Traverse (Temple Crag to Thunderbolt and Southfork Pass to Palisade Crest).
Expert Gear Picks from Meikael Beaudoin Rousseau
Expert running, climbing, & fishing gear recommendations from Meikael Beaudoin Rousseau, Professional Trail & Mountain Runner, based in Boulder, CO.
Meikael Beaudoin Rousseau's Trail Running
Everything I use in daily training and on race day!
Meikael Beaudoin Rousseau recommends the Brooks Cascadia Elite
Meikael Beaudoin Rousseau recommends the Brooks Ghost Trail
Meikael Beaudoin Rousseau recommends the Brooks High Point 5" 2-in-1 Short 2.0
Meikael Beaudoin Rousseau recommends the Brooks High Point Short Sleeve 2.0
Meikael Beaudoin Rousseau recommends the Brooks Catamount Agil
Meikael Beaudoin Rousseau's Fastpacking
Want to do multi-day trips traveling light and fast in remote wilderness? So did I. I've spent the past ten years optimizing this list for my own adventures. Everything on here has been meticulously selected to prioritize speed while staying safe and somewhat comfortable. This isn't a glamping list!! A couple of the items I personally use have since been discontinued or renamed since I originally bought them. In an effort to provide a truly complete checklist, I have selected the best/closest item currently available online for those cases, and will explicitly say so in the item note for full transparency. This list is fully comprehensive so you can use it as a checklist for your own trips. Aside from food and my iPhone, this is exactly what goes into my pack when I do one of these trips myself. Nothing more, nothing less. Enjoy!
